Samuel L. Jackson

Legend of Tarzan is a live action film that picks up where Disney’s 1999 animated classic left off, a concept you probably never asked for, but might be glad exists. Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood, Zoolander) shines as the movie’s titular character who shows loyalty in times of historical turmoil.

The year is 1889 and “Tarzan the Monkey Man” has been out of the jungle and living in the London as the Lord of Greystoke for years. When John Clayton III, as he prefers to be called, is summonded back to his old home by the notorious King Leopold of Belgium, he is reluctant.

However, with encouragement by George Washington Williams (Samuel L....

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